사설시조 사랑노래에 나타난 웃음의 의미

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to understand the meaning of laughter in love song of Saseol-sijo. For this, this paper has confirmed the text of laughter in love song of Saseol-sijo according to Bergson’s ‘laughter theory’ first. The results of the study on those texts as follows. Firstly, laughter does function which strengthen popularity. It Basically softens a serious and solemn atmosphere in texts. That is the source of enjoyment and amusement. Even lewd contents in the context of the ethical codes of the day could be accepted in texts of Saseol-sijo, owing to that function. Like this, laughter does function which makes an atmosphere of the text vulgar, but have Saseol-sijo texts can be read by many people and gain their sympathy in the same time. Secondly, laughter in love song of Saseol-sijo is that of ‘self-parody’. The poetic narrator makes himself comic in reverse of the last of the 3 verses of a Saseol-sijo poem. It is problematic in that the narrator’s offering others himself as a laughingstock is intentional. Narrator’s joyful burlesquing himself means such laughter is the very satire on himself. Thirdly, laughter of self-parody has three meanings as follows. (1) It gives readers enjoyment and amusement. This is originated from narrator’s offering others himself as laughingstock. (2) It gives us a plausible excuse to avoid a social criticism or an attack could be caused by lewd contents in love song of Saseol-sijo. (3) It makes an objective distance from a tragic situation of text, which let a narrator assume wait-and-see attitude, and be undepressed at the sorrow of life. Thanks to that, the narrator doesn’t miss self-pity, and affirmation about himself in self-mockery, and self-criticism. Through this, the narrator could overcomes self-dissociation, and recovers sense of balance of life.